Long Tantalizingly Poems

The finite contemplating the infinite
The stardust male and female still flush with light
From exploding stars, seeding new possibilities, our true progenitors.
So that even God Himself must take note of our passing (in its season),
Such elemental...

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(after Edgar Allan Poe's "The Angel of the Odd")

It was a tidy day and I sat, replete, under vellux blankets.
Sadly, my tea was weak, the bottle of cinnamon whiskey
tantalizingly low, and my feet swelling above...

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Virgil comes to group therapy every week in his pick-up truck with his dog, Buster, standing in the bed of the truck. The sessions are held for veterans of Korea and Vietnam. Quite a few...

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The air was filled with expectancy, my mood mellow and sultry,  The sun had just sunk Into a golden horizon, and a shy full moon, was rising into the twilight.  I skipped on...

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Come, You
by Rainer Maria Rilke
translation by Michael R. Burch

Come, you—the last one I acknowledge; return—
incurable pain searing this physical mesh.
As I burned in the spirit once, so now I burn
with you; meanwhile, you consume my...

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Liebes-Lied (“Love Song”)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

How can I withhold my soul so that it doesn’t touch yours?
How can I lift mine gently to higher things, alone?
Oh, I would gladly find...

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2.



"Those who have gone astray, whom [the Holy Spirit] itself begets, usually go
astray also because of the Spirit.  Thus, by this one and the same breath, the
fire blazes and is put out."

--- From the...

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I didn’t mean to invade her privacy,
I was simply taking the trash out late that night;
I never noticed how from the back of the house
You could see right into her bedroom when she turned on...

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I passionately kiss your velvety lips and﷯﷯
the tender area down the back of you neck.﷯﷯
I slowly unfasten the top button﷯﷯
and gently ease your collar apart,﷯﷯
exposing the delicate skin beneath.﷯﷯
Each button reveals another﷯﷯
beautiful part of you.﷯﷯
I...

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We were best friends. 
We were lovers.
Inexorably linked.
For such a commitment-phobe, I fell in love quickly.  But I didn’t fall, really.
I dove headfirst.
I chose her.  No, she chose me. 
She was always lurking...

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In the shallow
light of the moon,
the shadow dives
into the Hydrangeas
seeking a camouflage
of dark green
the howl of the
wolf pierces the
silence of the sleepy night
like the cry of a
hungry infant

the chameleon
turns a fuchsia
to hide from an intruder
foraging...

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Memories
Stored and kept safe
Put away but not forgotten 
Recalled and remembered 
With a simple touch 
A light breeze
Fresh and untainted 
Free and far from the world
The warm sun
Friendly and safe
Soil trickling through my hands 
Seedlings...

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We entreat the God of Love with glee sweet natures candy! Nervously naturally fearlessly did hurry to the water spring as the rushing winds blew swiftly to the Spring time Garden of expectations to take...

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Sun beaming gumdrops onto the season's pixies of truth
Affectionately dancing to gingerly giggles upon my tingly skin
Cotton clouds of powder puff and gentle sweet breezes too
Tantalizingly chasing, as they merrily join up with these magical...

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By Michael Wayne and Smriti Jha 


I will paint my love  RED across your  face as I drink in your 
beauty. 
    A river I will course in BLUE down the center of...

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Winter-weather tickles, tingles, tantalizingly thrills,
Chilling, stinging, freezing - common creature; yet it joy-fills;
Cold, like strong electric current, passes through our physique,
Beings though weak and fragile, in winter seldom fall sick...

Snow falls in colder regions, covering...

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I know you see me shimmering,
     tantalizingly just in front of you
You got an uncontrollable thirst,
     a rabid thirst for some real truth
Mainstream news drought has you...

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My eyes rapaciously closing from the rampant onslaught of sleep,
All the while, aromatic thoughts of her tingling my senses grappling for more time within my psyche to feel her breath upon my face.
Open, close, open,...

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Sometimes......
Sometimes,
You wish,
Sometimes you imagine,
And,
Sometimes you wonder
Sometimes you wish
Two birds in the bush
Are,
Worth more than one 
In the hand....
Sometimes,
You wish, wishes
Were horses
So,
Beggars can ride

Sometimes,
You wonder why
The grass always appears greener 
On the other side
Sometimes,
You wonder why...

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There is a word now long forgotten
That tasks the good-night air.
It sits tantalizingly upon my tongue
But it finds no babble there.

I had it for a moment.
I caught its scent upon the breeze.
It has slipped between...

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Hidden on a crisp white paper
Tracing itself in the lines of a sketch
Swirling through an artist’s paint

Rustling through the wind-stirred leaves
Weaving through an angel’s hair
Dancing in rainbow hues across the sky.

It chatters cheerily with the...

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I miss - The tantalizingly teasing flicker of my thick tongue;
As over your gorgeously lovely contours, I travel around.
I miss - Savouring the thrilling chill of your breath-taking temperature;
As I, in detail, passionately traverse your...

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Your eyes spoke to me,
told me things that my heart did not yet see
Visions of love that would be;
if I chose to let go of the past,
and embrace discovering this new mystery
that stands tantalizingly before...

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Breath-taking fish follow our footprints
into the booming sea.
A multicolored native child lives there
it walks upon the pushed-up swell,
bell-diving while standing
on the deep dark waves.

You may well dream of this
as the sun plays across your closed...

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Ah, my teenage years! 
              Unforgettable 
      The fun driving lessons
      ...

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